USA: Trump nominates Sonny Perdue as Agriculture Secretary

Donald Trump has chosen former Georgia governor Sonny Perdue to be his secretary of agriculture.

Wednesday 25 January 2017 (2 years 1 months 24 days ago)

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Trump on Thursday morning formally announced the pick — the final traditional Cabinet department chief to be selected.

Perdue, a former Democrat who switched to the Republican Party before governing Georgia for two terms from 2003 to 2011, has a strong agricultural background, having grown up on a farm and earned a doctorate in veterinary medicine.

Although Perdue’s Georgia is not among the nation’s top 10 agricultural states, it is home to 42,000 farms, with a strong focus in the cattle industry.

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